The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1887-10-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm and Garden Notes.
Chickens should always, il possible, be
cooped' near grass.
Try boiled sweet milk for chickens af-
fected with diarrhma.
Hens will sometimes lay several eggs
after beginning to sit.
Every farmer needs roller. A plank
drag and pulverizcr is also useful
implement,
Manure, pruning knives, attention and
sunshine are recommended as the best
helps to rose culture.
The best remedy for the current borer
is careful cutting away and burning of
all infected branches
Downy mildew causes p brown or gray
rot In Wisconsin the greatest loss from
rot is due to this fungus.
Paper put on in May and tarred with
tar gas or printers ink will keep out the
apple-borcr, and last three years
The good results Of tile drainage are
not all manifest in wet weather 1t is
equally beneficial in time of drought.
Unslacked lime, scattered about sta
bles and other places where feas are
likely to resort, has a tendency to re
move the pests.
An elevated tree near a building may
save the latter from disastrous stroke
of lightning A good rod, paid for
when it is put up is better, however.
Fowls DO best when allowed to roam at
large in field and orchard, but when it is
obligatory to shut them up they should
be supplied with meat scraps, butchers
etc.
The orchard, with its fruit and shade,
is good place for chicks as well as ma
turcd fowls, all the better ii the ground
between the trees is even partially cult
waited.
Attention to little things helps along
with greater. 1t does not pay, for ex-
ample, to use heavy dull hoes, or
scythcs, cultiyQtors or reapers out Of
order.
The cultivation of suntlowers is on the
increase. The object is thrce-fold-
naments, sanitary effects and food for
poultry, to which is added in some local
titles substitute for fuel.
Orchard grass i, especially valuable,
says a contemporary, because it makes
the earliest and latest pasture, and once
we'll established aud then well treated, it
will outlast the farmers lifetime
Proper trimming is essential to success
in all fruit growing. An OyerDurden of
limbs and foliage will exhaust natures
storchouse and cause the tree to be
come impaired in health and defective in
fruit.
DR.. Vincent, of Deckervillc, Mich,
says pear trees on light, sandy soil need
a wagon-load of clay or heavy soil put I'M
der each tree at the time of setting. In
this respect, he adds, pears differ from
other fruit
An excellent egg producing food is one
part corn meal, two parts bran, two parts
ground oats, one part ground meal and
one part middlings, to which may be
added a small portion of bone meal and
sail ; scald it and feed early in the morn
! ing
A California farmer cures cattle bloat,
caused by eating wet clover, thus Drop
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of pulyerized sugar for horse or COW,
place it well back on the tongue, and ii
not relieved repeat the dose in twenty
minutes. Il never fails to cure, he says.
Speaking of fattening hogs, w. B. E..
of Hutchinson, Kansas, says. u am
satisfied l can fatten hogs in two-thirds
the time where corn is soaked, and |
claim full twenty-five per cent. is saved
in feed, as the same amount will contrib
ute more to growth and fat than dry
corn. Soaked corn should be used from
February till dry corn comes in.
Practical and successful breeders claim
that constant supply of salt for swine
is a safe preventive Of diseases, one that
eau be counted on with degree of Ger.
tainty that by its constant use the sys.
tenn is made strong to ward off disease
that cholera does not start in herds re-
eeiving this care that these herds often
escape when all others around them are
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